cousin_it comments on Less Wrong Rationality and Mainstream Philosophy - Less Wrong

106 Post author: lukeprog 20 March 2011 08:28PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 21 March 2011 02:09:15AM 2 points [-]

Ah, see, when I learned a little logic, I shuddered, muttered "That is not dead which can unsleeping lie," and moved on. I'll come back to it if it ever seems useful though.

Comment author: cousin_it 21 March 2011 01:33:57PM *  6 points [-]

Yah, I sometimes joke that logicians are viewed by mathematicians in the same way that mathematicians are viewed by normal people. Logic makes complete sense to me, but some of my professional mathematician friends cannot understand my tastes at all. I, on the other hand, cannot understand how one can get interested in homological algebra or other such things, when there are all these really pressing logical issues to solve :-)